Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752149AbXBEIjx (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 03:39:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752152AbXBEIjx (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 03:39:53 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:38698 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752149AbXBEIjw (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Feb 2007 03:39:52 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] Tracking mlocked pages and moving them off the LRU From: Arjan van de Ven To: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Rik van Riel In-Reply-To: References: <20070203005316.eb0b4042.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1170525860.3073.1054.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20070203172242.e5bf2534.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1170576977.3073.1100.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 09:39:34 +0100 Message-Id: <1170664774.3073.1236.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 956 Lines: 21 On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 23:57 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Hmmm.. I have had no time to test this one yet but I think this should > work. It uses the delayed method and a new page flag PageMlocked() with > different semantics. Fix for page migration is also included. > > Patch avoids to put new anonymous mlocked pages on the LRU. Maybe the same > could be done for new pagecache pages? > > I still need a solution for the problem of not having enough page flag > bits on i386 NUMA. I still don't get why you *really* need such a bit. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/